Carl, Georgia
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Auburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30011. The Survey maps it on the Auburn quadrangle. 209 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCarl fell from 255 to 209 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 255 | |
| 2020 | 209 | -46 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
161 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Carl between 1992 and 2020, burning about 449 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 34 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 73 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-GWINNETT-001 |
| 25 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-BARROW-004 |
| 19 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-GWINNETT NORTH-001 |
| 18 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Carl: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrow Stone Co | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carl in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Lightning | Carl | $50,000 | The Barrow County News reported that lightning started a fire in the attic of a home located on Briarwood Road near Carl-Cedar Hill Road in the Briarwood Subdivision. Fire damage was mainly confined to the attic and a front room of the house, while smoke and water damage was noted elsewhere. No one was injured as the house was vacant at the time of the incident. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Whistleville | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Cedar Hill | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Barrow Heights | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Algernon (historical) | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Cains Courthouse (historical) | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Winder | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Mulberry | 5.7 miles | 15 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Carl | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2902172 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354992. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





